Microsoft.Azure.NotificationHubs - APNs provider API deadline

Question

1) Apple is updating their Apple Push Notification root certificate March 29, 2021 AAACertificateServices in place of the old GeoTrust Global CA root certificate.

2) Also, Apple will no longer be suppporting their APNs legacy binary protocol after March 31, 2021 requiring an upgrade to the APNs provider API.

We are using Microsoft.Azure.NotificationHubs.dll (version 4.1.0.0) to submit Push Notification requests via Azure to APNs as well as GMC/FMC. We would like to know if Microsoft.Azure.NotificationHubs.dll will require an update to satisfy either of the two upcomming events in March or if anyone has any information about this at all. It seems to me Microsoft.Azure.NotificationHubs.dll will need to be rev'ed to handle these...but we are unsure.

REF - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/setting_up_a\_remote_notification_server/
REF - https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=c88acm2b

Answer 1

Hello @Anonymous ,

Thanks for the question. As Martin said there is no action required by the users on Azure Notification Hub service as we move users from the binary protocol to HTTP/2 on our backend calls. The client libraries are unaffected by this change.

Azure Notification Hub Service does the communication with APNS on behalf of the users.

-Grace

Answer 2

From Martin Strobel <notifications@github.com>

We are aware of Apple's deprecation of the legacy binary protocol, and there is no action necessary for our customers.

Answer 3

That's great news. Thank you!